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Midday Matinee is our people watching, people doing and people being feature. Join the Woodland Creatures for an afternoon break.

Welcome back to Tuesday’s Tale, a weekly feature where we collaborate to write a story. Previous Tuesday’s Tales include Ancient Order of Misanthropes and Gobsmacked, Inc. We follow the basic rules of the “Yes, And” improvisational game – accept everything written so far as part of the story, and add your own paragraph (or so) where the last addition left off – except you needn’t begin your addition with “Yes, and.” I’ll start the story….

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Tom lifted the phone to his ear. “Aye? Aye. Aye. Ale be rah oar.”

Penny tapped Sandy on the shoulder. “Did you get that?”

“I understood ‘Aye,'” Sandy said. “Unless he was talking about eyes, like eyeballs, or the letter I. As for the rest….”